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BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS in Congress understand these principles of deficit spending in recessions so as to stimulate the economy, Simon has been forced to find a new language in which to couch his orientation toward investment and corporate well-being. Hence, Simon the Moralist and Prophet has made his debut in speeches around the country to business groups and in articles in Readers' Digest and Saturday Review. According to Simon, "the ethics of thrift and savings have been replaced by the ethics of instant pleasure, and we have turned to the modern state to satisfy our hunger." Simon says that...
...Portugal to the western fringe of China. It encompassed half the known world. This Moslem superstate was the largest religious and political bloc mankind had seen since the Augustan empire, and it had all been consolidated in a little more than 100 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed...
...unlikely prophet to his people. Born in New York City to a Spanish musician father and an Irish immigrant mother, De Valera was sent to his grandmother's in County Limerick at the age of two, when his father died. He taught mathematics after graduating from Ireland's Royal University but soon turned to politics. In 1913, the gawky, bespectacled De Valera signed on with the pro-Republican Irish Volunteers, quickly rising to battalion commandant. Three years later, De Valera deployed some 50 men around their battle station for the Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating...
Chronological time rules the work economy, its very rhythms and motions. The prophet of modern work was Frederick W. Taylor, and the stop watch was his rod. If any social upheaval can ever be attributed to one man, the logic of efficiency as a mode of life is due to Taylor. With "scientific management," as formulated by Taylor in 1895, we pass far beyond the old, rough computations of the division of labor and more into the division of time itself...
...Moon organization, which held rallies in 1974 to oppose the impeachment of President Nixon, claims to have more than 3 million followers. Its primary doctrine is that Moon is a prophet of Christ and that the second coming is imminent...